Historical Events and Current Affairs on August 5

Duke of Nepi names his brother (leek) Pope Constantine II
St Martin I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1054: Brightest supernova (Crab Nebula) 1st reported
1294: Pietro del Murrone elected as Pope Coelestinus V
1295: Scotland & France sign anti-English covenant
1436: German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten
1450: Pope Nicolas V names Walraven van Meurs bishop of Mnster
1596: English fleet under the earl of Essex plunder Cadiz
1626: Battle at Lenz: Rebel Austrian Boers defeated
1643: 1st recorded tornado in US (Essex County, Massachusetts)
1687: Isaac Newton's PRINCIPIA published by Royal Society in Eng
1750: Slave revolt on Cura‡ao
1791: Jos‚ Mar¡a Narv ez discovers Point Grey (now Vancouver BC)
1808: Battle of Buenos Aires
1811: Venezuela, 1st South American country to gain independence
1814: Americans defeat British & Canadians at Chippewa, Ontario
1830: France invades Algeria, begins a 40 year conquest
1832: HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin departs Rio de Janeiro
1834: Provisional government forms in Oregon Country
1841: Thomas Cook opens 1st travel agency
1843: Committee of 9 appointed to establish civil govt in Oregon
1859: Capt N C Brooks discovers Midway Islands
1861: Battle of Carthage, MO - US Gen Sigel attacks pro-secessio
1863: Battle of Jackson, MS & Battle of Birdsong Ferry, MS
1864: Battle of Smith's Expedition, MS (Tupelo, Harrisburg)
1865: Great Britain delegate's world 1st maximum speed laws
1865: Secret Service began operating under the Treasury Departme
1871: Trial against Kiowa chief Satanta (White Bear) & Big Tree,
1884: German consul-general Gustav Nachtigal takes possession of
1884: US Congress accept 2nd Chinese Exclusion Act
1891: Hail kills 6 horses in Rapid City, SD
1900: Compulsory education law passes Dutch 1st Chamber
1913: Queen Wilhelmina meets SDAP-leader Troelstra
1914: Boston Braves are 15 games back in NL, & win World Series
1914: Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in
1919: Red Sox Babe Ruth hits 2 HRs in a game for his 1st of 72 t
1922: 1st general election in Netherlands
1922: Uprising of social righteousness in Rio de Janeiro
1922: Women 1st vote in Dutch elections, Christian parties win
1924: Military revolt in Sao Paulo Brazil
1929: A Deutsch discovers asteroid #1148 Rarahu
1929: WOWO-AM, Indiana returns to air, 1 day after transmitter b
1932: Antonio de Oliveira Salazar becomes premier/dictator of Po
1933: German party Catholic Center disbands
1935: 1st Hawaii Calls radio program is broadcast
1935: 1st time brothers on opposing teams hit HRs, Tony & Al Cuc
1935: Chicago Cubs are 10« games back in NL, & go on to win the
1935: FDR signs National Labor Relations Act
1936: 120øF (49øC), Gannvalley, South Dakota (state record)
1937: 117øF (47øC), Medicine Lake, Montana (state record)
1937: C Jackson discovers asteroids #1428 Mombasa, #1430 Somalia
1937: Chicago Cub Frank Demaree gets 6 hits in 1st game & 2 in 2
1937: Joe DiMaggio's 1st grand slammer
1937: Republican offensive by Brunete in Spain
1938: Herb Caen's 1st column in SF Chronicle
1940: Diplomatic relations broken between Britain & Vichy govt i
1941: German occupiers disband political parties
1942: 1st performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Choros 6/9/11
1942: Ian Fleming graduates from a training school for spies in
1943: Battle of Gulf of Kula
1943: Battle of Koersk, USSR begins (6,000 tanks)
1943: Liberator bombers sink U-535 in Gulf of Biskaye
1943: US invasion fleet (96 ships) sails to Sicily
1944: Harry Crosby takes 1st rocket airplane, MX-324, for maiden
1945: Labour Party wins British parliamentary election
1946: Louis Reard's bikini swimsuit design debuts at Paris fashi
1947: Barefoot Boy with Cheek closes at Martin Beck NYC after
1947: Larry Doby signs with Cleveland Indians-1st black player i
1948: Britain's National Health Service Act begins
1948: E L Johnson discovers asteroid #1618 Dawn
1949: NY Giants purchase Monty Irvin & Henry Thompson, their 1st
1950: Law of Return passes, guarantees all Jews right to live in
1951: Dodgers sweep the Giants & lead by 7« games (Giants will w
1951: Dr William Shockley invents junction transistor (Murray Hi
1952: Of Thee I Sing closes at Ziegfeld Theater NYC after 72 p
1953: WANC TV channel 21 in Asheville, NC (IND) begins broadcast
1954: B-52A bomber made its maiden flight
1955: English harbor strike ends
1956: France raises tobacco tax 20% due to war in Algeria
1957: Tom Graveney scores 258 v West Indies at Trent Bridge
1958: J Pengel forms govt/Emanuels premier of Suriname
1959: Ben-Gurion's Israeli govt resigns
1959: Indonesia restores constitution
1959: Jack Gelber's Connection, premieres in NYC
1960: Mongolia adopts constitution
1961: 80 die in collisions in Algiers
1961: KUSD TV channel 2 in Vermillion, SD (PBS) begins broadcast
1961: St Louis Cardinal Bill White hits 3 HRs & a double
1962: 96 murder at massacre in Oran, Algeria
1962: Algeria gains independence after 132 years of French rule
1962: Mantle hits 2 homers en route to 4 consecutive homers
1963: 1st Beatle tune to hit US charts, Del Shannon From Me to
1966: National Guard mobilizes in Omaha after 3rd night of rioti
1966: NYC transit fare rises from 15› to 20›
1966: Saturn I rocket launched at Cape Kennedy
1967: Congo uprising under Belgian mercenary Jean Schramme
1968: John Lennon sells his psychedelic painted Rolls-Royce
1968: Manifest of 1000 words published in Prague
1968: Phila 76'ers trade Wilt Chamberlain to LA Lakers
1969: Rolling Stones play a free concert in London's Hyde Park
1970: Air Canada DC-8 crashes 7 miles from Toronto's airport kil
1971: 26th amendment certified (reduces voting age to 18)
1971: Simon Gray's Butley, premieres in London
1972: Pierre Messmer appointed French premier
1973: Isle of Man begins issuing their own postage stamps
1973: Live & Let Die, James Bond film premieres
1973: Maj Gen Juvenal Habyarimana becomes president of Rwanda
1973: Rwanda military coup under general-major Habyalimana
1975: Cape Verde Is gain independence after 500 years of Portugu
1977: Pakistan's army, led by Gen Mohammad Zia ul-Haq, seizes po
1978: Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan
1981: Premier Begin's Likud party wins Israeli elections
1981: Rajan Mahadevan recites 31,811 digits of ã from memory
1982: Challenger flies to Kennedy Space Center via Ellington AFB
1982: ICC Trophy record p/ship, 257 Schoonheim/Liffman, Hol v Ma
1983: France invades Algeria
1983: NJ Devils purchase AHL Maine Mariners as their farm team
1983: Woman gives birth to baby 84 days after brain death (Roano
1984: Supreme Court weakens 70-year-old exclusionary rule-evid
1984: with defective court warrants can now be used in criminal
1985: 117øF (47øC), St George, Utah (state rec) (103ø spread, UT
1985: globe, covering 13,035 road miles in 78 days, 3 hr, 30 min
1985: Nicholas Mark Sanders (England) begins circumnavigation of
1985: Premier Mugabe wins Zimbabwe elections
1986: Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway sets 10K woman's record (30:1
1986: Nancy Reagan cuts red, white & blue ribbon; reopens Statue
1986: Statue of Liberty is reopened after it is refurbished
1987: A's Mark McGwire is 1st rookie to hit 30 HRs before All St
1988: Malcolm Marshall takes 7-22 at Old Trafford, England all o
1989: Barry Bond's HR sets father-son (Bobby) HR record at 408
1989: Mark McGwire's gets 100th HR, 2nd fastest (1400 at bats) (
1989: Rod Stewart hits his head while on stage & knocks himself
1989: South-African Pres Pieter Botha visits ANC leader Nelson M
1989: Toronto Blue Jays are 10 games back in AL, & go on to win
1990: Zina Garrison upsets Steffi Graf in Wimbledon semi-finals
1991: Colorado Rockies & Florida Marlins given final approval by
1992: E F Helin & J Alu discover asteroid #6335
1992: Sixto Dur n Ball‚n elected president of Ecuador
1993: A's Rickey Henderson is 2nd to hit leadoff homers in doubl
1993: Kurd guerrilla's murder 32 villager in East Turkey
1993: Richard Chelimo run world record 10 km (27:07.91)
1994: Boxer Buster Douglas comes out of a diabetic coma
1994: E F Helin discovers asteroid #6671
1994: US changes refugee policy, by sending Haitian boat people
1995: Columbia U beats Hartferd College to be 1st US to win Henl
1996: A's scores 13 in 1st vs Angels
1996: NY Yank John Weteland ties Lee Smith's record of 19 consec
1997: Greg Vaughn, when Vaugh fails his physical
1997: NY Yanks withdraw Kenny Rogers & Mariano Duncon deal for S
2002: Bangladesh looses ODI as it makes 76 runs while Sri Lankan
2002: BSE Sensex up by 26 pts at 3011.35
2002: Cauvery Electrodes gets ISO 9001 Certification
2002: Indian Prime Minister Mr. AB Vajpey cancels all petrol all
2002: Lozada (Congress) was elected as the President
2002: Microsoft said it will be reveal some of the code of Windo
2002: President of Ghana Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor meets Indian Pr
2002: Suspected Islamic Militants attacks School killing 6

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